INQ: Theories of Color (2024)

Try starting with a broad key word search: a search for 
       blue and color
will always produce more choices than a specific search
      lapis lazuli

Next, adjust your search as needed:

• Too many results? Add additional words to make your search narrower, or make your key words more specific.
• Not enough results? Use fewer words, or make your key words more general

Try using these recommended subject headings:    

• Pigments
• Artists' materials
• Color in art

Museums: use museum web sites for finding works of art, artist information, and also more information about colors and pigments.

Examples:

• National Museum, London Technical Bulletins
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Publications

Artist or Art Historian Blogs: before using these, look into the author's background and level of knowledge: can you consider them an expert? Do they link to, or otherwise provide, their sources (in academic work, it is inappropriate to cite a source which doesn't include references)

Examples:

• Hue's Hue by Katy Kelleher in The Paris Review

Search: use keywords, then refine your results using classification, geography, date, etc.
Features:

• Open images by double-clicking them
• Zoom, pan, rotate.

Save images in your JSTOR workspace

Log into your JSTOR workspace via your Microsoft account from Hollins. This will let you:

• Create, share, and download folders with images and articles; 
• Present from your workspace using zoom, pan, and image comparison features.

Need help? Try the users guide for Artstor collections on JSTOR.

Search: using keyword, or Advanced Search using Image Search.

In an artist biography, go to the “Images” tab. Make sure you scroll down to see all links to images on museum and gallery web sites. Warning: not all these links will  work (but most will).

Features:

• • Open images by clicking them
  • Download by right-clicking (PC) or dragging to desktop (Mac).